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The Greater Good
Am I seriously the only one who watched The Terminator and I, Robot? Because I feel like I'm taking crazy pills watching the news lately.
By Sara Wilsonabout 3 hours ago in 01
Algorithmic Hinge: How AI and 3D Printing Solve Apple’s Foldable Dilemma
Duo, Apple’s long-awaited foldable phone announced at the company’s “Surprise and Shine” event on Wednesday, contains a number of surprises, including a critical hinge that was designed and built with the help of AI and 3D printing. This revelation underscores a significant shift in Apple’s hardware philosophy: where previous innovations relied on materials science alone, the iPhone Duo relies on algorithmic precision. The new phone represents Apple’s first entry into the foldable phone genre, a category of devices that has seen significant consumer enthusiasm but whose form factors haven’t always lived up to the hype. For years, competitors like Samsung and Huawei have struggled with creases, dust ingress, and hinge fatigue. As you might expect from a product that, by design, undergoes twice as much wear as a traditional device, most foldables suffer significant degradation and don’t have the durability of other smartphones. Apple’s entry is not just about catching up; it is about redefining the engineering standards of the category.
By Mark Lim about 6 hours ago in 01
Wrist-Worn Scribe: Apple Watch’s Siri Recap and the Privacy Paradox of Ambient AI
At its "Surprise and Shine" event on Wednesday, Apple launched a meeting notetaker for the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, marking a significant expansion of the device’s role from passive health tracker to active cognitive assistant. This new capability, part of a broader suite of audio intelligence features, allows the wearable to listen to sounds through its built-in microphone and process them locally. The feature, called Siri Recap, uses ambient listening to take high-level notes of your conversations, according to the company. Rather than creating a verbatim transcript, Apple Intelligence will automatically generate a title, summary, and key points from the conversation, which can then be reviewed in the dedicated Siri app. This abstraction layer is designed to capture the essence of a discussion without the clutter of filler words or tangential remarks, making it ideal for quick recaps of team syncs, parent-teacher conferences, or medical consultations.
By Mark Lim about 6 hours ago in 01
$15.5 Billion Brief: How Harvey Is Rewriting the Economics of Legal AI
Harvey, the legal AI startup that VCs can’t get enough of, has raised another $550 million in funding, this time at a $15.5 billion valuation, the company announced on Wednesday. This staggering figure cements Harvey’s status as one of the most valuable private AI companies in the world, rivaling established tech giants in market capitalization despite being only a few years old. The round was co-led by Diffusion and Lightspeed Venture Partners and follows the previous $200 million round at an $11 billion valuation announced in March. And that was just a few months after an $8 billion valuation from a round in December. This rapid ascent reflects not just investor enthusiasm for artificial intelligence, but a specific belief that the legal industry, a sector historically resistant to technological disruption, is finally ready for a complete overhaul.
By Mark Lim about 7 hours ago in 01
Quantified Self, Decoded: Apple Health’s AI-Driven Pivot to Longevity
Alongside the new Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, Apple on Wednesday introduced a redesigned Apple Health app that takes advantage of Apple Intelligence to make better sense of your health data. For years, the Health app has been a repository, a digital shoebox filled with steps, heart rates, and sleep cycles. But for many users, this data remained siloed and difficult to interpret. The new update changes that paradigm, moving from passive tracking to active interpretation. The changes deliver a new Insights tab that includes a summary of the most timely information, plus personalized guidance, assessments, a new “readiness” score, and a computation of your “Health Age.” This shift positions Apple not just as a hardware manufacturer, but as a proactive health partner capable of synthesizing complex biological signals into clear, human-readable advice.
By Mark Lim about 7 hours ago in 01
Digital Negative: How Apple Reference Image Restores Trust in the Age of AI
In a world awash in AI slop, Apple wants you to trust what gets captured on its iPhones. The proliferation of generative AI has eroded the foundational assumption of photography: that a picture represents reality. Deepfakes, manipulated news images, and algorithmic hallucinations have made it increasingly difficult to distinguish between what was seen and what was synthesized. To combat this epistemic crisis, the company announced Wednesday during its "Surprise and Shine" event that it is introducing Apple Reference Image, a feature it says can prove whether an image taken with the iPhone 18 Pro is authentic. This move transforms the smartphone from a mere content creation tool into an instrument of journalistic integrity.
By Mark Lim about 9 hours ago in 01
Listening Watch: How Apple Series 12 and Ultra 4 Turn Wristwear into an AI Memory Bank
Apple on Wednesday unveiled the Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 at its "Surprise and Shine" event in Cupertino. While the smartwatches aren’t getting a major hardware makeover in terms of industrial design, they are receiving some of the most significant software and sensor updates in the devices’ history. The focus has shifted decisively from mere notification delivery to proactive assistance, with Apple taking aim at the growing wave of AI wearables like the Humane Pin or Rabbit R1 by integrating powerful, on-device audio processing capabilities directly into the wrist.
By Mark Lim about 9 hours ago in 01
Huawei Claims It Broke von Neumann. I Read the Paper. It Doesn’t Say That.
Cool the Title Down: This Paper Did Not Overturn von Neumann On September 15, arXiv posted paper number 2609.16787, titled “Nested Parallel von Neumann Architecture and Nested BSP,” with a single author name: Liao Heng. He is a Huawei Fellow, Chief Semiconductor Scientist, and chief architect of Ascend.
By Jinabout 9 hours ago in 01
The Best AI Video Generators in 2026
AI video generation has moved far beyond the novelty of turning a short text prompt into a few seconds of footage. Today's AI video tools can generate scenes from text and images, animate existing artwork, create digital presenters, transform long-form content into short clips, and help creators build complete videos without traditional production equipment.
By Solution Boxesabout 9 hours ago in 01
Someone built that: the quiet engineering behind the money app on your phone
The other day I split a dinner bill by tapping a phone against a friend's phone. The money was gone from my account and in theirs before we had finished arguing about who ordered the second bottle of wine. Neither of us thought about it for a second. That is the strange magic of modern money apps. They work so smoothly that they become invisible, and invisible things are easy to take for granted.
By Solution Boxesabout 9 hours ago in 01
Email Migration with Microsoft Graph API: What IT Administrators Need to Know
Microsoft has now officially deprecated Exchange Web Services (EWS) for Exchange Online, meaning that EWS requests for non-Microsoft applications will begin to be blocked from October 1st, 2026, with full retirement completed by April 2027.
By Layla Darziabout 10 hours ago in 01
Foldable Frontier: Apple’s iPhone Duo Redefines the Form Factor with Privacy-First Design
Apple today introduced its first foldable device, named the iPhone Duo, at its "Surprise and Shine" event held in Cupertino. The phone is the first marquee device launched under the company’s new CEO, John Ternus, marking a significant departure from the traditional slab design that has defined the iPhone for nearly two decades. This launch signals Apple’s confidence that it can enter a mature market late and still dominate through superior integration, brand loyalty, and a distinct philosophical approach to hardware design.
By Mark Lim about 11 hours ago in 01